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DESPARDES — Turkmenistan has adopted a special approach to wiping out the coronavirus — by completely banning any mention of the word, according to reports. The Central Asian nation is
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The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) entered into force on March 26, 1975. It currently has 182 states-parties. Ten states have neither signed nor ratified the BWC, including Chad, Comoros, Djibouti,
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“We will get the fiscal space for prepayments”: Pakistani official SoDATA — Oil prices have now plummeted by about two-thirds this year, with a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia
Pakistan has a huge youth bulge — nearly 64pct of the population — and has generally been supportive of Khan including backing him for change in the status quo. DESPARDES
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The Umrah returnees (from Saudi Arabia) in March are a silent source of importing coronavirus to Pakistan DESPARDES — Four (4) major coronavirus trends in Pakistan have been tracked so
DESPARDES — Scientists from the Global Virus Network at the University of Maryland in the US, along with Iranian scientists, used latest climate models to see how the prevalence of
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IRSHAD SALIM — On Mar 14, 2020 a falcon with mini camera on its back — and released from the top of Khalifa Tower — went looking for its coach,
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SoDATA — The Moody’s rating agency has forecast that instead of an over 3 percent growth in 2020, world economy will now see negative growth due to Coronavirus pandemic. The
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SoDATA — 2020 is the moment when Washington’s global authority could truly begin to buckle, says an opinion piece in Bloomberg as it compares Beijing’s handling of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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The global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been adding challenges to the peace process and Khalilzad has said it created a need for urgency. DESPARDES — Afghanistan’s government has announced a
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DESPARDES — Some children eating grass in India were photographed on the the third day of 21-day countrywide lockdown amid global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Local administrative officials intervened with ration
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DESPARDES — President Donald Trump wants the country to get back to work, saying “it’s like the cure (lockdown) is worse than the problem”. More than 104,000 confirmed cases of
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